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What Do Tomorrow’s Doctors REALLY Think of mHealth Technology?

mHealth Insight

Nathan Ratner, a third-year medical student at the University of Minnesota and third-place finisher in last year’s Elsevier Hackathon in Finland, talks to Eric Wicklund at mHealth Intelligence, about the promise of mobile health technology. mHealth Insight.

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Why are older adults demeaned by the health and tech industry?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Pew hasn’t bothered lately, but AARP recently published a survey of tech ownership among the 50+. The 2017 Harvard article indicates that 1 million had signed up for these home nurse visits – but there were 19 million people covered by Medicare Advantage plans in 2017. No wonder HIMSS session folks thought this was no big deal.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

Yet with that bullish supply side of digital health, there was a marked decline in peoples’ use of them in the past two years, found by Accenture in their latest health consumer survey, Digital is Transforming Health, So Why is Consumer Adoption Stalling? Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020.

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mHealth guide to Mobile World Congress 2019

mHealth Insight

Last year mHealth fell off the radar for the GSMA and there was no mHealth content at the world’s biggest mobile industry conference and exhibition (held annually in Barcelona – [link]. GLOMO Awards: Fourth Industrial Revolution Live Presentation. Date & Time. Monday, 25 Feb. 10:00 – 10:30. Description.

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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. These findings are based on Rock Health’s survey of some 4,000 U.S. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017.

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Health Populi

The phrase “concerned embrace” was coined in a 2017 Deloitte consumer study on mobile technology trends. The biggest deltas in terms of growing interesting are seen in this survey for: Blood pressure, doubling in interest from 18% current tracking to 37% looking to track in the future. Blood sugar or diabetes, by 2.5

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The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

Continue Education Journal

In fact, a 2017 survey found that two-thirds of healthcare consumers would prefer seeing a doctor via virtual visits. Telehealth in 2019. In a society whose functionality depends on technology, it’s easy to assume that most people prefer virtual options in place of in-person.